Can I use my DJI Mini Series drone in DroneDeploy?
We do not have direct application support for autonomous flight modes and missions in DroneDeploy for the DJI Mini Series. (This includes Mini 1,2,3,4, SE and Pro Models)
The main reason for this is the need for a third-party SDK from the manufacturer to allow us to operate this series of drones in DroneDeploy. We will consider adding these platforms to our lineup if and when this capability exists.
What can I do with my mini-series drone and DroneDeploy?
Even though we currently do not support app functionality for these drones, you can still manually capture images utilizing the DJI Fly app and your mini-series drone. Once you have captured the images, you can transfer them from your SD card to your desktop or laptop and process them as usual in DroneDeploy.
Follow this workflow to capture images manually in DJI fly.
1. Ensure your drone is operating the most current firmware and is up-to-date.
2. Connect to the DJI fly app utilizing your controller, mobile device, or the DJI smart controller.
3. Look at your camera settings in the DJI fly app, ensuring the photo size is set to 4:3 and captured in JPEG format.
4. Go through preflight, set up, and launch.
5. Manually fly and capture images of your subject area. Capture images squaring in your subject, taking photos every 10ft from 90° angles, 65° angles, and 45° angles surrounding your subject. (Taking enough photos to ensure overlap and coverage of your area)
6. Once you have captured your area, ensure the images are saved on your SD card.
7. Return to the office and upload the images from your SD card into a project in DroneDeploy.
8. Create, upload, process, then view!
We hope that down the road, we can support the DJI mini-series in our flight app for autonomous mapping. Until then, if you have a mini lying around and want to put it to work on the site, you can always capture images manually and process them into your project through the desktop version of DroneDeploy.
Additional Information:
Capturing and Uploading Data, Using a Non-Supported Drone in DroneDeploy
How To Process Datasets into Maps and Models
If you still need to answer your question here, please contact support@dronedeploy.com.